| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 595 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Fill South side of Pre-excavated burial (pit #10) | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 595 | |
| Date: | 2015/04/21-22 | |
| Stratum: | 50% coarse sub-rounded pebbles. Abundant shards and fragments of bone trampled and without pattern of disposition. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | Excavated by Emilio Rodriguez-Alvarez. 21-04-2015 9.15: Started to excavate after cleaning the surface from loose soil and somne pine needles and plants. This context is the fill of the South side of a burial (Pit #10; NB864) in unit 2 room 6, which was left unexcavated. Some shards and bones are visible even before starting excavating. When the excavation started it was not clear where the South side of the deposit was. There was a risk of creating an artificial edge by trying to follow it so it was decided to consider the previous excavation as a post-depositional process and start excavating along the West edge and North to South. Right after excavation started context yielded small and fragmented pieces of bone and pottery. No apparent orientation. 12:13: After excavated c.6 cm the context changed drastically its shape, concentrating in the NW quadrant of the original top plan. It is currently interpreted as the fill of a cut that was made in the surrounding deposit and that was also cut by the burial already excavated (NB 864). The finds are still pottery and bone in a very fragmented condition. A single piece of charcoal, smaller that 4 mm, was found. 13:15: The fill gets deeper and deeper in vertical profiles. The stones that delimit its East side are probably the indicator of the limit of the pit, that was not cut but only half excavated in 1996. The thin layer of context that covered the yellowish mre compact soil would be the result of context 595 washed away due to exposure and going south, following the slope direction. Now the excavation works take place from the north edge of the deposit southwards, since it is the safest way of following the layout of the deposit. Day finished at 13:45 without closing the context. 212-04-2015 10.15: After area drawing (south side room 6) excavation was resumed in context 595. Apart from same material found yesterday some animal bones (ovicaprid tooth) located. Research on NB 864 and 2014 reports confirmed that pit#10 was cut by the baulk of the square 79H, and that its shape is not the recorded one. Since context 595 is almost to the same depth than the surface left by the 1996 excavations, this surface was cleant to prevent contamination of the context when this gets deeper, as it seems it will be since in NB 864 it is recorded that they did not reach the bottom of the deposit. 12.36: After excavating +-3 cm below the surface of pit #10 as defined in the 1996 excavations it became evident that the morphology of the context was much moree complicated than previously thought. The presence of several tiles and stones inserted in the profile but covered by the yellow layer that was found after removing the south side of the deposit seem to point out to an extension of the context probably to the east and west. It is not possible to explore this into more detail until the deposits (no context # assigned yet) that cover context 595 are removed. The current hypothesis to interpret why the context presented this shape is that the partial excavation of pit #10 exposed part of it that then washed off south following the slope and covering the yellow compact layer to the south of its original location. Since other areas of Room 6 must be excavated before the removal of this yellow deposit it was decided to close the context excavation of this spot. It will be resumed when a better understanding of its deposition becomes possible. 02/06/2015 (L Kennedy): Animal bones: extremely mixed in representation of taxa, with limpets and other seashells along with sheep/goat and possible turtle, rest too fragmentary for taxa identification, a few sheared from being cut in antiquity, 0.24 kg, all thrown. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. blue fritz, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. preFrankish2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. preRoman5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, bowl. 2 rims. 9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped tin glazed, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Frankish sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, bowl. ; Fineware. slipped and glaze painted1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. early decoration | |
| Pottery Summary: | 34 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 192 frag(s) 1.8 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 33 frag(s) 0.11 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | charcoal 1; bronze 2 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Grid: | 120.3-119.95E, 1077.57-1078.18N | |
| XMin: | 119.95 | |
| XMax: | 120.3 | |
| YMin: | 1077.57 | |
| YMax: | 1078.18 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.71-85.05m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2015 0403 Image: digital 2015 0422 Coin: 2015 19 |
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